The End of the World #9: Interview with Cathy O’Neil

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For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Cathy O'Neil, an American mathematician and the author of the blog mathbabe.org and several books on data science.

Bookshelf:
Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O'Neil's contributions to Bloomberg.com
The investigative journalism of ProPublica.org

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